Game of Thrones 5-17
May 19, 2015 9:24:52 GMT -5
Post by adorebel on May 19, 2015 9:24:52 GMT -5
Again, yes, you can think of 4 or 5 cute boys on the show, but there are many, many more young women placed in the show purely for viewing pleasure, and far more often, they are gratuitously naked, often prostitutes, and often suffering. The ratio is WAY off.
I think what you're saying about Daenerys' wedding night speaks to the point I made in my original post, which is that no one (especially if you hadn't read the books) would be automatically pissed off about a rape scene in a TV show. At that point, the fan base of the show was smaller and it was one of the first abusive sex scenes we'd seen in the show. The point is how the show goes on to meditate on that, and in the case of GoT, I don't think they ever treat the interiority of the female characters who have experienced abuse with enough depth to justify the endless horrific things we have to sit and watch them go through. IMO, it's only because this has happened SO MANY TIMES and for seemingly no good reason that people are losing it over Sansa's rape. Every time the show writers deviate from the books, it seems to be to punish another female character with sexual abuse.
I know you're saying you're just playing devil's advocate, but I have to say that your tagline, "Still one of your resident proudly God-hating, gay-loving, abortion-approving, liberal feminist boneheads," makes me surprised you're so lax about this, haha!
ETA: That tagline is a leftover from way back when, when TD had a TTGP confessional. Those were the things someone called me. Seemed like a compliment more than anything at the time.